Re: dynamic shared memory: wherein I am punished for good intentions

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> (2) Default to using System V shared memory. If people want POSIX
>> shared memory, let them change the default.
>
>> After some consideration, I think my vote is for option #2.
>
> Wouldn't that become the call of packagers?

Packagers can certainly override whatever we do, but we still need to
make the buildfarm green again.

> Wasn't there already some
> reason why it was advantageous for FreeBSD to continue to use System V
> shared memory?

Yes, but this code doesn't affect the main shared memory segment, so I
think that's sort of a separate point.

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